: I know it's a different strain of thought entirely but it is worth thinking
: about, what if the Physical Index is unimportant, only the codes within
: it? Think about the word "index", what is an index? It is an
: alphabetical listing of key-words or topics in a book. Now what of our
: index? What is its contents? All of the major life sustaining Solar
: Systems in the Galaxy perhaps? Who knows. Food for thought.

I agree completely. For what also is a library? A place for storing information, so why not store all of the forerunner's history on the index, and put the index in the library. Perhaps the index was also the key to Halo's control systems because only the Forerunner of the highest stature had access to it (back in the day) because of it's massive importance as a source of information.

That might sound a lil backwards, but I think it makes sense. Cut me some slack, it's late over here.